Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.